On arrival we couchsurfed with a friend then went to find an apartment with two other friends a few days later. In high 
season everyone living on the island moves into tents and rents out their houses for a tasty profit th
at will feed them for the rest of the year.
Sounds easy enough, although try telling an old lady that her cherished house isn’t quite hygenic enough and you would prefer a sea view… Much easier to view the ‘rentals’ where people build what is essentially a hotel on the side of their house – 5 or 6 identical looking tiny apartments which remain empty for 9 months of the year but fetch an extortionate rental during the Summer.
We happily found a cheap ‘granny annex’ style apartment at the back of friendly surfer Mario and his wife’s house. They even threw a cheap surf board into the deal – per
fect.
Florianopolis is a gorgeous island with beautiful and wild beaches with translucent waters, a tropical lagoon, colourful rivers and lively people. Families all hang out by 
the river seeing what they can catch during the day and in the evening they move up stream to the lagoon and start on their prawn hunt with headtorches and buckets in tow. Eating or selling off their catch to one of the many fish restaurants. Prawns factor a big part on the menus and we couldn't leave without trying the 'secuencia de camarao': a sequence of prawn dishes cooked in any way you can imagine.
Typical Brazilian weather of flash floods and hot sun made us feel at home and we had a great stay.
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